A student is chairperson of the group responsible for developing a procedure to handle cheating at his school, yet he takes no action when his best friend confides in him that he cheated on his last test. According to Leon Festinger,
the student will experience
a. self-serving bias.
b. compliance.
c. informational influence.
d. cognitive dissonance.
Answer: d. cognitive dissonance.
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